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| Author | : John Gneisenau Neihardt |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780803233195 |
The creative energy that would in time produce A Cycle of the West and Black Elk Speaks is apparent in his first book, The Divine Enchantment, published in 1990 when he was nineteen years old. It can be viewed as an early version of the philosophy of spiritual awareness that Neihardt articulated twenty-five years later in Poetic Values. They are reprinted together for the first time in this Landmark Edition. A narrative poem bursting with youthful enthusiasm, The Divine Enchantment reveals Neihardt not as an ordinary poet but as a visionary bard. Inspired by his reading of Eastern philosophy, it is a Hindu myth with Christian parallels. The virgin heroine, Devanaguy, fulfills prophecy in bearing Krishna, the incarnation of Vishnu, in spite of imprisonment by a jealous and fearful king. Neihardt?s vision of the union of spirit and matter, of reason and higher consciousness, introduces themes he was to expand on in his later writings. Poetic Values, a series of lectures published in 1925, speaks of the common need for self-enlightenment. Drawing on sources ranging from the Upanishads to psychology textbooks, Neihardt argues that poetry can provide a balanced philosophy to live by in bridging the gap between Western materialism and Eastern otherworldliness. Poetry links the objective with the subjective, the real with the imaginary, and for the reader of Poetic Values, as for the heroine of The Divine Enchantment, the highest self-enlightenment comes with self-forgetfulness. Blair Whitney writes that, in comparing these two works, ?one can see [Neihardt?s] strong, consistent development from a boy who loved words and had big dreams to a mature poet who found ways to realize his ideals and to communicate them to a large audience of readers.?
| Author | : David Brown |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 2004-10-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780191533990 |
David Brown argues for the importance of experience of God as mediated through place in all its variety. He explores the various ways in which such experiences once formed an essential element in making religion integral to human life, and argues for their reinstatement at the centre of theological discussions about the existence of God. In effect, the discussion continues the theme of Brown's two much-praised earlier volumes, Tradition and Imagination and Discipleship and Imagination, in its advocacy of the need for Christian theology to take much more seriously its relationship with the various wider cultures in which it has been set. In its challenge to conventional philosophy of religion, the book will be of interest to theologians and philosophers, and also to historians of art and culture generally.
| Author | : Hsiao-wen Cheng |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2021-01-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0295748338 |
A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960–1279)—medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes—depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were married but denied their husbands sexual access, thereby removing themselves from social constructs of female sexuality defined in relation to men. As elite male authors attempted to make sense of these women whose sexual bodies were unavailable to them, they were forced to contemplate the purpose of women’s bodies and lives apart from wifehood and motherhood. This raised troubling new questions about normalcy, desire, sexuality, and identity. In Divine, Demonic, and Disordered, Hsiao-wen Cheng considers accounts of “manless women,” many of which depict women who suffered from “enchantment disorder” or who engaged in “intercourse with ghosts”—conditions with specific symptoms and behavioral patterns. Cheng questions conventional binary gender analyses and shifts attention away from women’s reproductive bodies and familial roles. Her innovative study offers historians of China and readers interested in women, gender, sexuality, medicine, and religion a fresh look at the unstable meanings attached to women’s behaviors and lives even in a time of codified patriarchy.
| Author | : Fiona Ellis |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2014-10-31 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 019102354X |
Many philosophers believe that God has been put to rest. Naturalism is the default position, and the naturalist can explain what needs to be explained without recourse to God. This book agrees that we should be naturalists, but it rejects the more prevalent scientific naturalism in favour of an 'expansive' naturalism inspired by David Wiggins and John McDowell. It is argued that expansive naturalism can accommodate the idea of God, and that the expansive naturalist has unwittingly paved the way towards a form of naturalism which poses a genuine challenge to the atheist. It follows that the traditional naturalism versus theism debate must be reconfigured: naturalism and theism are no longer logically incompatible; rather, they can both be true. Fiona Ellis draws on a wide range of thinkers from theology and philosophy, and spans the gulf between analytic and continental philosophy. She tackles various philosophical problems including the limits of nature and the status of value; some theological problems surrounding the natural/supernatural relation, the Incarnation, and the concept of myth; and offers a model - inspired by the secular expansive naturalist's conception of philosophy - to comprehend the relation between philosophy and theology.
| Author | : Rye Brewer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Avarice When you’re the daughter of a god, you’re not always in charge of your own fate. That’s what Danai and her five sisters discover when their father, a minor god, has bartered their future to the god of the Underworld. Their foolish father lost his kingdom to a trickster goddess, and much like any buffoon, he has thrown good money after bad and decided to trade his daughters for his kingdom. Indeed, the girls’ hands have been given in marriage to the princes of hell. Danai’s pledged to Sebastian, the Prince of Greed. Luckily, his greediness is for her love more than for material matters. Unluckily, Danai’s stepmother has just decided to enter the Underworld. You know how it is with stepmothers. And Gia is the worst of them. With Riven still unconscious and an attempted murder of the heir to the throne of the Underworld, palace intrigue thickens with Gia’s arrival. Then it thickens even more when Danai becomes the favorite of her future mother-in-law and she’s gifted with an immortal talent which can be her undoing if she isn’t careful. Envy The final book in the Divine Deities series! When you’re the daughter of a god, you’re not always in charge of your own fate. That’s what Sasha and her five sisters discover when their father, a minor god, has bartered their future to the god of the Underworld. Their foolish father lost his kingdom to a trickster goddess, and much like any buffoon, he has thrown good money after bad and decided to trade his daughters for his kingdom. Indeed, the girls’ hands have been given in marriage to the princes of hell. Sasha’s pledged to Caleb. A sweetie, by all standards, when compared to his hellish brothers. Yet, what Sasha and Caleb don’t know can absolutely hurt them as palace intrigue swirls in the Underworld and threatens to consume all in a tidepool which started long before the Red River goddess committed her sin. Long before the girls’ father’s impetuous affairs. Oh, these matters predate all, going back to the very beginning of evil. And now, Sasha is missing. Not merely missing. In grave danger.
| Author | : Cheryl Bridges Johns |
| Publisher | : Baker Books |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2023-05-16 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1493436678 |
In an age when the Bible has been stripped of its sacredness and functional biblical illiteracy reigns, this book makes the case that we must work to re-enchant the text in order to return the Bible to its rightful place in the lives of Christians. Cheryl Bridges Johns explains how the Enlightenment's turn to the rational human subject made it possible to objectify the Bible and has distorted our interpretations of Scripture. This move generated a belief that studying the Bible was primarily a means of supporting facts and providing evidence of competing visions of reality. This "modern" version of the Bible does not trouble our nights with apocalyptic images. It has been stripped of its power. She also shows that both "liberal" and "fundamentalist" interpretation are failed forms of disenchanted readings. Johns argues that we must rediscover the Bible as a sacred, dangerous, mysterious, and presence-filled wonderland to counteract biblical illiteracy in an increasingly post-Christian landscape.
| Author | : Thomas Cogswell Upham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 1847 |
| Genre | : Faith |
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| Author | : Timothy G. Anderson |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2016-08 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 080329039X |
American poet and writer John G. Neihardt (1881–1973) possessed an inquiring and spiritual mind. Those qualities came to the fore in Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Lakota holy man Black Elk, for which he is best remembered. Over the course of thirty years he also wrote a five-volume epic poem, A Cycle of the West, which told the story of the settling of the American West. Despite Neihardt’s widespread name recognition, the success of Black Elk Speaks, and a list of critically acclaimed books and poems, Lonesome Dreamer is the first biography of Neihardt in nearly forty years. Timothy G. Anderson describes Neihardt’s life from his humble beginnings in Illinois, to being named poet laureate of Nebraska in 1921, to his appearance on the Dick Cavett Show at the age of ninety. Anderson also delves into Neihardt’s success as a poet far from the East Coast literary establishment, his resistance to modernist movements in poetry, and his wish to understand and describe the experience of the Plains Indians. Offering insight into both his personal and his literary life, this biography reaffirms Neihardt’s place in American literary history, his successes and failures, and his unbreakable spirit.
| Author | : Stephen Minister |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2017-09-11 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0253029481 |
Collected critical essays analyzing Kierkegaard’s work in regards to theology and social-moral thought. Kierkegaard’s God and the Good Life focuses on faith and love, two central topics in Kierkegaard’s writings, to grapple with complex questions at the intersection of religion and ethics. Here, leading scholars reflect on Kierkegaard’s understanding of God, the religious life, and what it means to exist ethically. The contributors then shift to psychology, hope, knowledge, and the emotions as they offer critical and constructive readings for contemporary philosophical debates in the philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, and epistemology. Together, they show how Kierkegaard continues to be an important resource for understandings of religious existence, public discourse, social life, and how to live virtuously. “All in all, the editors of this volume have put together a thoughtful and sometimes provocative collection of essays by a number of Kierkegaard scholars and philosophers for the reader’s consideration. . . . The volume undoubtedly makes a contribution to contemporary philosophical debates in the philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, and epistemology, especially with regard to the importance of faith and love for leading a good and meaningful human life.” —International Journal for Philosophy of Religion “Invites the reader to think anew about what Kierkegaard was saying and what we can learn from him in the context of our time, particularly what it means to become a Christian in terms of the moral task of love and living a life worthy of a human being.” —Sylvia Walsh, translator of Kierkegaard’s Discourses at the Communion on Fridays
| Author | : Michiel Meijer |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2020-10-27 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1000210170 |
This book presents a philosophical study of the idea of reenchantment and its merits in the interrelated fields of philosophical anthropology, ethics, and ontology. It features chapters from leading contributors to the debate about reenchantment, including Charles Taylor, John Cottingham, Akeel Bilgrami, and Jane Bennett. The chapters examine neglected and contested notions such as enchantment, transcendence, interpretation, attention, resonance, and the sacred or reverence-worthy—notions that are crucial to human self-understanding but have no place in a scientific worldview. They also explore the significance of adopting a reenchanting perspective for debates on major concepts such as nature, naturalism, God, ontology, and disenchantment. Taken together, they demonstrate that there is much to be gained from working with a more substantial and affirmative concept of reenchantment, understood as a fundamental existential orientation towards what is seen as meaningful and of value. The Philosophy of Reenchantment will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in philosophy—especially those working in moral philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, theology, religious studies, and sociology.
